Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2001 21:16:17 +0100 From: Arnout Bruinsma <bruinsma31@zonnet.nl> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: freebsd-questions Message-ID: <3C03F491.6085C971@zonnet.nl>
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Dear Sir/Lady,
I bought a book called Free BSD Unleashed.
With it came a cdrom containing disc 1 of Free BSD 4.4
During installation I ran into a partition problem.
According to Partition Magic my disk looks like this:
===========================================================================================================
Partition Information for Disk 1: 39260.4 Megabytes
Volume PartType Status Size MB PartSect # StartSect
TotalSects UsedSects FreeSects
===========================================================================================================
C:WINDOWS C FAT32 Pri,Boot 3004.3 0 0
63 6,152,832 910,062 5,242,770
ExtendedX Pri 36256.1 0 1 6,152,895
74,252,430 59,279,850 14,972,580
EPBR Log 23.5 None --
6,152,895 48,195 48,195 0
*:boot Debian Linux Ext2 Log,Boot 23.5 6152895 0
6,152,958 48,132 4,138 43,994
EPBR Log 31.4 6152895 1
6,201,090 64,260 64,260 0
*:boot SuSe Linux Ext2 Log 31.3 6201090 0
6,201,153 64,197 7,293 56,904
EPBR Log 23.5 6201090 1
6,265,350 48,195 48,195 0
Unallocated Log 23.5 6265350 0
6,265,413 48,132 1,558 46,574
EPBR Log 13696.0 6265350 1 6,313,545
28,049,490 28,049,490 0
D:WINDOWS D FAT32 Log 13696.0 6313545 0 6,313,608
28,049,427 1,118,616 26,930,811
EPBR Log 7169.6 6313545 1 34,363,035
14,683,410 14,683,410 0
*:Debian/GNU 2.2Linux Ext2 Log 7169.6 34363035 0
34,363,098 14,683,347 1,255,963 13,427,384
EPBR Log 7004.9 34363035 1 49,046,445
14,346,045 14,346,045 0
*:SuSe Linux 7.0Linux Ext2 Log 7004.9 49046445 0
49,046,508 14,345,982 2,662,750 11,683,232
Free Space Log 7310.8 None -- 63,392,490
14,972,580 0 14,972,580
EPBR Log 996.2 49046445 1
78,365,070 2,040,255 2,040,255 0
*:SWAPSPACE2 Linux Swap Log 996.2 78365070 0
78,365,133 2,040,192 8 2,040,184
In short,my extended partion houses 2 boot partitions,Windows D ,and two
operating systems (Debian,SuSe).
There is space for a BSD boot partition/1st slice(23,5 Mb) and a root
partition/2nd slice
(Free space 7+Gb)
But the BSD FDISK Partition Editor shows this:
Offset Size
End name Ptype
Desc Subtype
0 63
62 -
6 unused 0
63 6152832 6152894
ad0s1 2 fat
11
6152895 74252430 80405324
ad0s2 4 extended 15
80405325 12915 80418239
- 6 unused
0
It seems I cannot enter the extended partition slice,and it is there
that I would like to install BSD ,of course without disturbing my
current configuration.
As an extremely fresh newbie I apologize beforehand for asking a silly
question and I thank you for your time .
Getting an answer , though , would help me on my road in search for an
operating system that suits me.
Bij voorbaat dank,
Arnout Bruinsma
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